Fudge and Gringotts

[flying_meese]

No: HPFGUIDX 74177

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "tomatogrower88" 
<tomatogrower88 at y...> wrote:

> I think JKR in letting Harry's story be printed in the Quibbler is 
> letting us see that some of the stories are based in fact. That 
this 
> is a paper willing to print things other papers won't. I do think 
that 
> Fudge could have been trying to take over Gringotts. Key persons 
> -think Umbridge- do not like magical creatures with near-human 
> intelligence (pg 754 OOP american). Fudge could be trying to get 
rid 
> of the goblins. As for cooking them in pies I do not think this is 
> true but if you think something is "sub human" you might not have 
a 
> problem killing it. How far would Fudge go?  I think it could be 
> setting up events in later books on who sides with Lord Thingy and 
who 
> does not. So how far will Fudge go?
> 
> Myrth

I think that most tabloid stories have a base in some fact. (Notice 
the use of the word most not all) However of these fact based 
stories wild opinions are allowed to take flight and what we end up 
with is the crazy story that the fact becomes. It's not unlike what 
happens on this board. There are some crazy theories that are based 
around one piece of evidence that JKR has left and we run with it. 
Now many times you can look at a wild and preposterous idea and find 
some bit of truth in it despite a flawed progression from that 
truth, but sometimes these wild theories are truths that people 
can't or won't bring themselves to believe for whatever reason.

FM